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Show BRITON ARRIVES TO QUERY HITLER BERLIN. Nov. IT (UP) Viscount Halifax, lord president of the council in the British cabinet, arrived today for a series of "private" talks with German leader that were Intended to assure the peaceable cooperation which British and German governments govern-ments alike have long sought railroad station by Sir Neville Henderson, Hen-derson, the British ambassador, and Vicco Karl von Buelow-Schwante, chief of protocol of the foreign office. He proceeded to the British ambassy. Mission Important Ostensibly Lord Halifax's visit Is a private one. to attend the International Inter-national hunting exhibition here, and there was no arrangement for a formal reception. It is admitted, however, the talks ho Intends to have with Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and other leadera in the next few days are of major diplomatic moment Because of the delicacy of the international situation, and particularly particu-larly because of tho "Berlin-Rome axis" of cooperation between Germany Ger-many and Italy, political quarters were reserved aa to possible results of ttts-rrstr: There waa a strong tendency to deprecate reports that Lord Halifax was here to find out what Hitler regards as a proper peace consolidation consolida-tion program. Germans Have Queries German leaders say that hLs Ideas are well known. Rather, Germans want to ask what Britain and France are ready to do. In German minds, the colonial question must play a part In any general settlement and Germany wants France to abandon Its "entanglement" "en-tanglement" its military alliance with Russia. German sources aaid that Viscount Vis-count Halifax would leave tomorrow for Berchtesgaden, in Bavaria, to see Hitler at the fuehrer's mountain retreat and would remain there Friday and Saturday, returning here Sunday. It was aaid that he would spend part of Sunday and most of Monday with Colonel General Her-man Her-man Goering, Hitler's right-hand man. |